112 pages : 23 cm

Provides capsule views of 100 outstanding women who changed the course of world history, beginning with Queen Makare Hatshepsut and concluding with Rigoberta Menchu

Includes index

Queen Makare Hatshepsut -- Deborah -- Sappho (Psappho) -- Aspasia -- Cleopatra VII -- Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ -- Boadicea (Boudicca) -- St. Helena -- Zenobia (Septimia Bat Zabbai) -- Hypatia -- Theodora -- Eleanor of Aquitaine -- Queen Tamara (Thamar) -- Queen Margaret -- Joan of Arc -- Isabella I -- Catherine of Aragon -- Catherine de Medici -- Elizabeth I -- Queen Jinga (Jinga Mbandi) -- Pocahontas (Matoaka) -- Mary Wortley Montagu -- Emilie du Chatelet -- Catherine the Great -- Caroline Herschel -- Catherine Littlefield Greene -- Marie Lavoisier -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Sophie Germain -- Elizabeth Fry -- Mary Fairfax Somerville -- Sacajawea ("Bird Woman") -- La Saragossa (Maria Agustin) -- Lucretia Coffin Mott -- Catherine Beecher -- Dorothea Dix -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Ada Lovelace -- Charlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Lucy Stone -- Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) -- Queen Victoria -- Susan Brownell Anthony -- Florence Nightingale -- Harriet Tubman -- Clara Barton -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Mary Baker Eddy -- Lakshmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi -- Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones) -- Lousia May Alcott ---

Sophia Jex-Blake -- Annie Besant -- Emma Lazarus -- Emmeline Pankhurst and Christabel Pankhurst -- Carrie Chapman Catt -- Jane Addams -- Mary Kingsley -- Marie Curie -- Sarah Breedlove Walker -- Gertrude Bell -- Alice Hamilton -- Rosa Luxemburg -- Maria Montessori -- Julia Morgan -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Helen Keller -- Frances Perkins -- Emmy Noether -- Margaret Higgins Sanger -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Karen Horney -- Sister Elizabeth Kenny -- Louise Boyd -- Lucila Godey Alcaya (Gabriela Mistral) -- Agatha Christie -- Martha Graham -- Anna Freud -- Amelia Earhart -- Golda Meir -- Margaret Mead -- Marian Anderson -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Rachel Carson -- Mother Teresa -- Rosa Parks -- Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias -- Indira Gandhi -- Betty Friedan -- Shirley Chisholm -- Margaret Thatcher -- Anne Frank -- Toni Morrison -- Corazon Aquino -- Valentina Tereshkova -- Marian Wright Edelman -- Rigoberta Menchu

Queen Makare Hatshepsut -- Deborah -- Sappho (Psappho) -- Aspasia -- Cleopatra VII -- Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ -- Boadicea (Boudicca) -- St. Helena -- Zenobia (Septimia Bat Zabbai) -- Hypatia -- Theodora -- Eleanor of Aquitaine -- Queen Tamara (Thamar) -- Queen Margaret -- Joan of Arc -- Isabella I -- Catherine of Aragon -- Catherine de Medici -- Elizabeth I -- Queen Jinga (Jinga Mbandi) -- Pocahontas (Matoaka) -- Mary Wortley Montagu -- Emilie du Chatelet -- Catherine the Great -- Caroline Herschel -- Catherine Littlefield Greene -- Marie Lavoisier -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Sophie Germain -- Elizabeth Fry -- Mary Fairfax Somerville -- Sacajawea ("Bird Woman") -- La Saragossa (Maria Agustin) -- Lucretia Coffin Mott -- Catherine Beecher -- Dorothea Dix -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Ada Lovelace -- Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Lucy Stone -- Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) -- Queen Victoria -- Susan Brownell Anthony -- Florence Nightingale -- Harriet Tubman -- Clara Barton -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Mary Baker Eddy -- Lakshmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi -- Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones) -- Lousia May Alcott ---

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